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Nervous from the Service

2 hours ago | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

For an extremely sensitive and poignant study of life like your own, carrying constantly threatening overtones during this early stage of postwar readjustment, it would be worth your while to see “The Best Years of Our Lives,” even at the present inflated postwar prices.

The sparkling travelogue opening shows three jittery veterans flying home to up-and-at-’em Boone City, a flourishing elm-covered metropolis patterned after Cincinnati. They are too uneasy about entering their homes as strangers to eat up the scenery. The chesty, down-to-earth sailor (Harold Russell), whose lack of sophistication and affectation furnishes a striking contrast to his two chums, is hypersensitive about his artificial hands and is afraid that his girl (Cathy O’Donnell) will marry him out of pity rather than love; the sergeant (Fredric March), whose superiority rests in his being old and experienced, a survivor of the infantry and before that a successful banker and father, »

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Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 3 (Farber Before Negative Space)

18 November 2009 7:43 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

You don’t necessarily think of Manny Farber as your Baedeker to the shadings and luridities of mainstay American movie acting, as a dab hand of the concise plot summary that uncoils into deft film critique, or associate him with audience recommendations and words like “marvelous,” “sensitive,” “poignant,” and “sparkling.” You particularly don’t think of Farber this way if your experience of his writing is confined to Negative Space. Yet consider three short illustrative moments from his many, sometimes-weekly film columns of the 1940s and '50s.

This is Farber on Frank Sinatra & Co. in From Here to Eternity for The Nation, August 29, 1953:

The laurel wreaths should be handed out to an actor who isn’t even in the picture, Marlon Brando, and to an unknown person who first decided to use Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed in the unsweetened roles of Maggio, a tough little Italian American soldier, »

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Justin Long Loses A Limb For 'The Conspirator'

14 October 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

He'll always be best known for representing a Mac in Apple commercials, but Justin Long continues to branch out with his acting career. After a decade of playing fairly light roles in comedies and horror films, not to mention a prominent breakout part in "Live Free or Die Hard," he will be getting his first serious, dramatic supporting role in Robert Redford's Lincoln assassination movie, "The Conspirator," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Long joins James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn for the historical drama about Mary Surratt (Wright Penn), the sole woman allegedly involved in the plot to kill the president. McAvoy plays a disfigured Civil War hero who comes to her defense, while Long will play his best friend and fellow soldier who also assists as McAvoy's conscience.

The biggest challenge will be that Long's character has lost a limb in the war (it's not revealed if it's »

- Christopher Campbell

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Alec Baldwin Returns As Co-Host Of "The Essentials"

9 October 2009 2:10 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

"30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin will be back for a second season as a co-host of Turner Classic Movies' "The Essentials," joining Robert Osborne in the show.

The 10th season of "The Essentials" will kick off in March with the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire," starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden.

The season will also showcase four Academy Award Best Picture winners "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), "Gigi" (1958), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)," and "The Sting" (1973), as well as Best Foreign Language Film winner "Black Orpheus" (1959).

Baldwin said, "I have enormous respect for TCM and Robert Osborne. TCM has stayed true to its mission, with a vast library of movies from many different decades. I'm proud to be able to sit down with Robert again."

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